andreas palsson <pucko@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> My first encounter was to convert normal 8-bit characters to Unicode
> using the mapping-tables from unicode.org
<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/>.
>
> But when I looked at "8859-8.TXT" it is actually missing the entries
> between 0xBF-0xDE and 0xFF.
> My guess is that this is intended, and that the 8bit-character has the
> same value in Unicode (0xBF is 0x00BF).
>
> Am I right or am I on the wrong track?
In fact, there are no characters defined in ISO 8859-8 for those code
points. If you encounter 0xBF in text that purports to be ISO 8859-8,
it is an error.
> ... "It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and
> THEN do your best." - W. Edwards Deming
Great quote.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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